Golf bag



C. HOTZE Jan. 22, 1935.

GOLF BAG Filed Aug. 15, 1931 Patented Jan. 22, 1935 v U TED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,988,870 GOLF BAG Charles Hotze, St. Louis, Mo. Application August 15,1931 Serial No. 557,330

14'Claims. (o1.15o---1.5)

This invention relates to improvements in golf bags and pertains more particularly to the upper end or mouth end of the bag and is a furthering of the invention contained-in my co-pending application Serial Number 417,315, filed December 30; 1929 on Golf bags, now Patent No. 1,868,979, the present application pertaining to improvements at the mouth of the bag for providing improved means of cooperation with the golf clubs While being carried inthe bag during playing.

Another object of the invention is in providing a golf bag at its mouth or club receiving end with improved means for preventing valleying or bunching of the clubs so that ease of access to 1.5 the clubs may be had.

A'further object of the invention is in providing a golf bag with improved adjustable means at its mouth for holding the golf clubs in alined positions in the bag.

A still further object of the invention is in providing a movable member inwardly of the mouth ring of the golf bag for cooperation with an adjacent portion of the bag mouth for securing the clubs between the member and the adjacent portion of the bag.

Other an'dfurther objects will appear in the specification and be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, exemplifying the invention, and in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of the upper portion of a golf bag having a hooded extension and showing the application of the invention thereto.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the upper portion of a golf bag showing the invention as applied in playing use.

Figure 3 is an enlarged plan view of the mouth of the bag.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section taken through the upper portion of the golf bag.

During golf playing, golf bags are generally carried in the approximate inclined position shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 and consequently the playing clubs will gravitate to the lower side of the bag, thus bunching one upon another and requiring that the golfer or caddy spread the bunched clubs for selecting the next desired club to be used. This improvement in golf bags therefore is to hold or retain certain of the playing clubs in alined positions at the mouth ring of the bag so that a ready selection can be made.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, 1 designates a golf bag having the bag wall 2, the upper end of the bag having a mouth 3.

The mouth 3 of the bag is provided with a -mouth ring 4 having a pair of downwardly inclined portions 5 joining a straightened portion 5 6, said mouth ring being secured in a leather layer 7 and secured to said leather layer beneath the ring is a collar 8 and secured between said collar and said leather layer is the bag wall 2. A hood 9 is also secured between the leather layer 7 and the collar 8, said hood when the bagis in playing use being inverted in the bag.

Secured on the inside of the mouth 3 of the bag is a member 10 having a resiliently flexible transverse securing or holding portion 11 which is dis- 15 posed parallel of and adjacent to the straightened portion 6 of the mouth ring 4, said member 10 having angular formed slotted end portions 12 and mounted in each slot is a rivet 13, each rivet providing for securing the member 10 to the mouth of the bag.

In playing use, the hood 9 is inserted or inverted in the golf bag, the slide fastening means 14 being unsecured and certain of thegolf clubs known as the irons are mounted in inverted positions in the bag with their club ends 15 resting on the straightened portion 6 of the mouth ring 4 and the member 10 is moved into position on the pivot rivets 13 so that the portion 11 of said member 10 will flexibly engage the club shafts as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

This engaged position of the member 10 against the shafts of the clubs, will hold the clubs in alined positions during carrying of the bag in readiness for the immediate selection of a desired iron or club.

To aid in mounting the clubs in the positions shown in Figs 2 and 4, the member 10 can be readily swung upwardly away from the clubs in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4 and after mounting the clubs in the alined positions on the straightened portion 6 of the mouth ring, the member 10 can readily be swung downwardly to engaging position with the clubs.

After playing, the clubs of course are removed 45 from their alined positions on the straightened portion 6 of the mouth ring and the member 10 is moved on the rivets 13 so that the portion 11 thereof will abut the straightened portion of the bag mouth and the hood 9 is then pulled out of the bag inwardly of the member 10 as shown in Fig. 1 and the clubs are inserted in the bag through the opening provided by the slide fastener means 14 and after which the slide fastener means may be secured by locking ready for transporting the bag from the golf links.

The transverse portion 11 of the member 10 is covered with a cushioning element 16 such as a leather layer for preventing scratching of the club shafts and the inclined portion 5 on each end of the straightened portion 6 of the mouthring 4 will prevent the end clubs of the alined row of clubs from projecting endwise from the vious that a simple and efiicientdevice applicable to the mouth of golf bags for, securing the golf clubs in alined positions is providedsand while but one showing of the invention is disclosed, it is clear-that if necessary the invention can be applied to the mouths of bags having atrue circularcformation or otherwise and therefore it is not my intention tolimit the scopeof the invention to the particular embodiment shown than'by the terms of the appended claims;v

What I claim is: Y

1. .A golf bag having an approximate U-shaped member secured inwardly of the mouth thereof, said member being. adjustable at its ends for holding. golf clubs in alined positions against'a portion of the 'bag mouth. w

2.'A golf bag having a member" disposed inwardly of the bag mouth, having a portion paralleling-a portion of the bag mouthjfor holding golf clubsin' alinedv positions against said portion of thebag mouth, said member being adjustably secured at its ends to the bag mouth.

'3. A. golf bag having its mouth provided with 'a straightened portion, and a movable member paralleling said straightened portion, said member being adjustable at its ends forsecuring golf clubs in alined positions in the bag.

4; A golf bag having a resiliently yieldable member swingably secured at its ends to opposaid straightened portion swingably and slidably connected to opposing walls of the mouth, adapted to' be positioned for securing golf clubs in alined positions in the bag.

cooperate with the bag mouth for securely holding golf clubs against the bag mouth.

-8. A golf bag having a member swingably and slidablyv secured at its ends, to the bag mouth adapted to be positioned for holding golf clubs in-alined positions in the bag.

9, A golf bag having a member swingably and "slidably secured at its ends to the bag mouth,

said-member adapted to be engaged against the golf clubs in the bag for'securing them against the bag' mouth.

be engaged against the golf clubs in the bag for securing them against the bagmouth, and said member be'ing adapted to abut the bag mouth after the removal of the clubs, for permitting withdrawal of the hood inwardly of said member.

12. A golf bag having an 'insertable hood, a

member slidably secured to the bag mouth, said member adapted to be engaged. against the golf clubs in .the bagv for securing them against the bag wall, and said member being adapted to abut the bag mouth wall after the removal of the clubs for permitting withdrawal of the hood inwardly of said member;

13. A golf bag having an approximate U- shaped thrust member adapted to be positioned for-holding. golf clubs in an alined row against a portion of the bag mouth, said member also being adapted to'be swung to a position adjacent the opposite side ofthe'bag mouth.

14. A golf bag having a thrust member swingably secured at its ends to the bag mouth and adapted to be positioned for holding golf clubs against a portion of the bag mouth, said member also being adapted to be swung to a position adja'cent the opposite side of the bag mouth.

CHARLES HOTZE. 

